Ever wondered what it’s like to be a marketing intern at an established, innovative marketing agency? Before joining the Rivers team, I always dreamed of working at an agency. Exciting projects. A buzzing atmosphere. Collaboration with talented professionals. These elements, along with the anticipated learning experience and introduction to client relations had me hooked. I’m
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See the work Finding the right ad agency for your company’s needs can be a challenging task. Type the words “ad agency” into a Google search, for example, and you’ll get more than 2 billion results. From here, you’ll see everything from giant media conglomerates and high-profile advertising agencies to small shops specializing in
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What is TikTok? In 2018, Chinese global technology company ByteDance acquired Musical.ly, an Internet platform where users shared short lip-sync videos, and rebranded it as TikTok. Each TikTok user has his or her own “For You” page, where they can swipe through an endless stream of content, all powered by an algorithm that predicts what
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Quarantining one evening this summer, in his home at Carolina Meadows retirement community, Charlie Lehmann watched a very sad and deeply disturbing COVID-19 news conference. Daily cases of COVID-19 were rising uncontrollably and the death rate among people in his age group (75 to 90) comprised 20% of the daily cases, and 80% of the
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Fantastic Sams Puts Caring at the Center of its New COVID Crisis Advertising Campaign
August 14, 2020
For the past three years, Rivers Agency has been the agency of record for Fantastic Sams, one of the world’s largest full-service hair salon chains, which has nearly 1,000 locations throughout North America. Plans were well underway for the 2020 campaign when the COVID crisis brought Fantastic Sams salons – as well as nearly all
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Rivers Agency is one of many companies across America that has staff working from home to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to Slack, Zoom, Google Docs, email and high speed internet, our agency team is able to continue supporting clients, all of whom around the globe are equally house-bound. There are advantages and disadvantages to
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Each morning promptly at 8:30 a.m., we get to see our colleagues’ smiling faces. There’s the usual daily greetings, coffee talk and laughs, except unlike a normal work day, our team is meeting virtually. With COVID-19 (the coronavirus) sweeping the globe, Rivers Agency has taken the unprecedented step of having all of our employees work
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